Alan Stewart’s UK and Ireland family history news

More English and Welsh parish registers go online

Over the last month, Find My Past UK has added more than two million parish records, in conjunction with archives and family history societies.

Find My Past UK says it has added over 2.2 million records within the last month alone from across the UK at its fastest ever rate. Subscribers can now search additional parish baptism, marriage and burial records from Wales, East London, Sheffield & Yorkshire, Kent, Lincolnshire, Plymouth & West Devon from 1568 right up to 1999 to add detail to their family story.

Records include:

St Dunstan Stepney 1689-1697 (10,062 entries)

St Andrews Bethnal Green 1843-1876 (760 entries)

George In the East Stepney 1893-1901 (2,403 entries)

Sheffield Baptisms 1852-1940 (16,997 entries)

Sheffield Marriages 1848-1991 (26,512 entries)

Cleveland Baptisms 1600-1869 (22,343 entries)

Greenwich Burials 1748-1793 (12,832 entries)

Lincolnshire Marriages 1700-1837 (49,184 entries)

Devon Baptisms 1900-1999 (5,275 entries)

Devon Burials 1626-1927 (1,111 entries)

Ryedale Baptisms 1790-1886 (2,176 entries)

Sheffield Burials 1767-1802 (31,470 entries)

Merioneth Baptisms 1568-1894 (8,316 entries)

Merioneth Marriages 1568-1837 (1,744 entries)

Merioneth Burials 1568-1899 (6,258 entries)

This is in combination with 2 million new Welsh records, meaning those with Welsh ancestry can now search almost 6 million parish entries from the following counties: Anglesey, Brecknockshire (or Breconshire), Caernarvonshire, Cardiganshire, Carmarthenshire, Denbighshire, Flintshire, Glamorgan, Merioneth, Monmouthshire, Montgomeryshire, Pembrokeshire and Radnorshire:

Baptisms: 2,083,430 records covering 1538-1912

Banns: 557,078 records covering 1603-1927

Marriages: 1,226,650 records covering 1539-1927

Burials: 2,057,453 records covering 1539-2007

Paul Nixon, Content Licensing Manager at Find My Past UK says: “With so many fascinating new records, we’ve listened to customers and greatly enhanced the site for our subscribers. We’d welcome any archive or family history society which would like to get in touch and would be interested in adding to our collection.”